Derek's 60th Birthday Card

Derek loves travel so I made him this card to celebrate his 60th.

Not that he went to Paris or even France.... as it turned out they went to Jersey... not far away!!!

The inspiration apart from the interest in travel came from some lovely papers Mary had bought, and I particularly liked this paper with French writing and a picture of the Moulin Rouge. It gave a good backdrop to the travel elements.

Desiring Truth Thank You Card

 I went on an excellent weekend away at Lindors near the Forest of Dean recently, for a 'Desiring Truth' Bible teaching weekend on the Glory of God.

Not only was the teaching by Ann Absolom very good (as usual), but the fellowship with other believers was like a taste of heaven.

Just to add a cherry on the top... I made a lovely new friend called Sandra. We shared a room together and straight away felt like we had known each other for decades.

I wanted to give a thank you card to express my appreciation, so cheekily used three elements off their advertising literature to add to this card I made.. the Bible and the Desiring Truth logo's.

The Bible verse I used inside the card was:

"So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, 'If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free'."
The envelope in the centre section inside the card was there for me to pop a discreet note of thanks inside.

Chris's 2013 Birthday Card

I had a fancy to use different types of materials to make this card so used purple card, turquoise cord, softly patterned lilac paper, blue, purple and turquoise material folded and stuck down, silver peel offs to create the lines, diamanté in the centre of the soft flowers, peel offs for the 'Make a Wish' and candles and then typed a sentiment and printed it onto Safmat so that I could stick it onto the card.

I hoped it would be a pretty cheerful card that wasn't like anyone else's card Chris had sent to her, because she receives lots of handmade cards.

Sue's 2013 Birthday Card

I saw an advert for some die cutters to make a card that looked very similar to this. When I looked closely I thought, well I have cutters that are so close in design, I reckon I could have a go at sort of copying it.

Having some lovely lime green card from Papertrey that I was looking forward to using, set about making Sue's card.  Sue likes (in colour coding terms) summer colours, so I set about using some blues and silver to try and pull it round to something that I thought she may like.

I did have a bit of a wobble mind you... because she isn't overly fond of cards with flowers, and these are sort of flower elements, although not actual pictures.

She said she liked it... I hope she did, and wasn't just being polite.

It is difficult to make cards for card makers.

Oskars lifeboat cake

Oskar was celebrating becoming 6 years old with a party and a clown had been booked for the occasion.

oskar has a passion for lifeboats and also their mascot, Stormy Stan.

So I set about making a cake that included both.

The cake was sponge, sandwiched and covered in jam and butter icing before being covered in regalice.

Happy 6th Birthday Oskar.

I was thrilled to receive this thank you note from Oskar in the post for making his 6th birthday cake. The writing is so neat and tidy and am impressed with his skill at such an young age.

Doesn't he just look simply gorgeous? What a pleasure it was making this cake for him, knowing he would be so thrilled.

The Cotswold Crafters

Well here we are.... the motley crew!

Mary
Fiona
Chris
Pam

We met on the 2nd March and spent a lovely day making cards.

Lunch was a beef bourguignon and Fiona topped it off by making us a delicious meringue/roulade desert to finish.

This is the first card I made on our Cotswold Crafters day.

With some urgency I made this card because it was Anne's birthday the very next day.

I used an embossing folder to create the white broiderie anglaise design and then using some fabulous die cutters and stamps belonging to Chris, made the flowers.

If you want to see more cards using these then I can really recommend you go onto Chris's blog listed on the right hand side of my blog... called purple peonies.  She has made some lovely cards using them.

This card I made on the Cotswold Crafters Day on 2nd March 2013.

I used a new stamp set belonging to Chris and really enjoyed making this simple card that had a lovely clean look to it.

It looks to me like embroidery.

I sent it to my relative in Cornwall, Marilyn. I hope she liked it.